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Full qualified dataset names with definition by wildcard

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

Dynamically adding file definition to CDP by cooperation with UCD

Hi,in our development environment there are many liberty profile instances within cics (up to 50) and development has the possibility to delopy their applications in any liberty instance by their own via ucd. These applications write their own log...
over 4 years ago in IBM Z Common Data Provider 1 Delivered

IMS Online Reorg - OSAM PS to OSAM LDS

Allow converting from OSAM Physical Sequential to OSAM Linear Dataset via Online Reorg Shadow Copy (SHADOW(E)) technique. This is needed for IMS OSAM Encryption.
over 2 years ago in IMS Database Solution Pack for z/OS / Database Reorg 3 Delivered

Be able to restart CKTI listener with the STC CICS user Id like CSKL(Sockets) listener.

Why there is no option to start CKTI with a specific user ID instead of the user who is actually running the tran? For example, If I recycle the listener with my ID it will get started with my ID and wont have access to many things(open initq, tri...
over 11 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 5 Delivered

Add an option to the Retrieve Data Set feature to restrict search on additional qualifiers

In remote systems perspective, when we retrieve datasets in MVS files, there no option to restrict the dataset filter criteria to a particular number of qualifiers or nodes. This would be similar to unchecking the " Include Additional Qualifiers" ...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Explorer / Client 4 Delivered

We want to make a global requireSecure available for API requesters

For zosconnect_apiRequesters element, the apiRequester sub-element has both requireAuth and requireSecure defined. We understand that requireAuth is available at a higher level to cover all zosconnect_apiRequesters. We have a need for requireSecur...
about 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 1 Delivered

support for 'scopes' as available in OAUTH2.0 standard

z/OS Connect Enterprise Edition currently supports OAUTH access_token to authenticate a requester, but it doesn't support 'scope' to authorise a request. The https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6749#section-3.3 explains about scopes.With help of 'scope...
over 4 years ago in z/OS Connect 2 Delivered

Permit pjdd to have all JES2 DDName like in SDSF with 'input on' command

pjdd stands for Print Job DDName and today pjdd does not print all Jobs DDName. So the purpose of this ideas is to have all JES2 DDName like in SDSF with 'input on' command
about 2 years ago in Z Open Automation Utilities 3 Delivered

CICS could gather diagnostics information regarding TCPIP stack failures.

When TCPIP Stack has left the TCPIP SYSPLEX GROUP by consequence of a failure on the stack itself and do not prevent if of working for completely. On this case, CICS TCPIPServices, used for receiving IBM INTEGRATION BUS (or Message Broker) calls ...
over 2 years ago in CICS Transaction Server for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered

Enhancement of the MULTUSER Function

Since some of our users have work with two separated CLSS-Sessions (having only one user-id) we'd like to have the MULTUSER funcion enhanced:- when an active user logs on at another terminal, he should have the possibility to control, whether the ...
over 7 years ago in IBM CL/SuperSession for z/OS / Runtime 3 Delivered